Learning Support Assistant - Mayfield School
Learning Support Assistant - Mayfield School
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Job Description
Learning Support Assistant (Secondary School)
Salary information:24027 (FTE)
Closing date: 30.04.2025
Interview date: after Easter break
Do you want a rewarding role supporting and making a difference to our students and support your colleagues to ensure childrens learning is at the centreThen this is the vacancy for you.
Overview
Mayfield School seeks to appoint an organised and proactive Secondary School Learning Support Assistant. This is an exciting time to join us as we are currently embarking on a rapid school improvement journey and currently completing a transfer to the successful Salterns Academy Trust.
What does Mayfield have to offer:
- A supportive ethos and genuine concern for wellbeing of all our employee
- A highly skilled diverse and driven team of committed employees to work with
- Excellent CPD opportunities
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to an Occupational Health provider
- A genuine opportunity to make a difference to the benefit of students and their local community
- An exciting and vibrant environment in which to work
- Opportunity of career growth as part of a Trust
We are looking for someone who:
- Preferably has experience in a similar supporting role although not essential
- Is engaged and has a desire to apply their knowledge and skills to Mayfield
- Has a supportive and one team work ethic
- Is positive with a cando attitude
- Has a caring persona for those around them
- Takes notice of the details and observant of the little things
- Takes pride in their work
- Can evidence they have passed both GCSE (or equivalent) English and Maths
- Able to work 40 weeks per year (term time 5 days) and 31.2 hours per week over 5 days
Our school
Our school is a very special place where students staff and governors work in a community where we aim to Believe. Achieve. Succeed. every day. This is driven by our new set of shared values Respect Inclusion and Ambition.
Mayfield School is at the heart of a thriving and diverse local community. We are one of the first singlesite allthrough maintained schools in the country which we believe provides us with a unique opportunity to improve and shape the lives of all students (Year R Year 11 in our community. We strive for all students at Mayfield School to receive a highquality education in a safe environment where all children are valued supported inspired and future ready. Mayfield prides itself on the positive relationships fostered knowing every young person as an individual and challenging each of them to have the highest possible aspirations through our ambitious and inclusive curriculum.
How to apply
Please go to our website: and complete the Teaching Staff Application Form and return to
Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to close the vacancy if a suitable candidate is found.
Further information
If you have any questions about the role or would like to arrange a tour please contact our HR Department on.
Safeguarding
Mayfield School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.
All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring checks along with other relevant employment checks.
Some forms of employment occupations and professions are exempted from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Working within a School is exempted from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
You are applying for a role that is eligible for an enhanced DBS check and access to the barred list and if shortlisted for interview you will be required to complete the relevant selfdeclaration and disclosure form and taking into account the offences that are protected or filtered declare:
- All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
- All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020
- If you have been barred from working with Children and/or Adults at risk
The DBS check will reveal both spent and unspent convictions cautions reprimands and final warnings and any other information held by local police thats considered relevant to the role. Any information that is protected under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 will not appear on a DBS certificate.
The successful candidate will then be asked to complete an application for the relevant Disclosure and Barring Service check or if subscribed to the update service provide the necessary details to allow a check to be made. The amendments to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Orderand 2020 provides that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain convictions and cautions are considered protected. This means that they do not need to be disclosed to employers and if they are disclosed employers cannot take them into account.
Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website. Guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975 GOV
The filtering rules were updated on 28 November 2020 as follows:
- warnings reprimands and youth cautions will no longer be automatically disclosed on a DBS certificate
- the multiple conviction rule has been removed meaning that if an individual has more than one conviction regardless of offence type or time passed each conviction will be considered against the remaining rules individually rather than all being automatically disclosed
Employment Type
Intern
